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Frederick Douglass Quote - You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

Frederick Douglass

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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
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What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?
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A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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Country Democracy Deny Existence Institution Land Law Marriage Privilege Slave
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
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